CVE-2025-2224

Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing

mediumMissing Authorization

5.3

CVSS Score

5.3

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

8.3

Patched in

Time to patch

Description

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'parse_query' function in all versions up to, and including, 8.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the post_status of any post to 'publish'.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Low

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=8.2

PublishedMarch 24, 2025

Last updatedMarch 25, 2025

Affected plugindirectorist

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=api-prod

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